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Re:Pentagon Requests $15B for Space Force by loceng on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:00PM (#22293268)
There's plenty of reasons for economic-abundance value that overlap with strategic military-security spending: strengthening one's stance against bad actors like China and their allies, redirecting and/or mining asteroids for their resources, etc.. Whether Space Force's overt mission is currently aligned with intergalactic safety - certainly Elon Musk is aware and will effort towards protecting and managing for such potential events.
Re:Pentagon Requests $15B for Space Force by shusson on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:10PM (#22293385)
> strategic military-security spending

I was under the impression Space Force is political spending. Was anyone in the military asking for Space Force?

Re:Pentagon Requests $15B for Space Force by nightski on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:34PM (#22293638)
Yes, it actually already existed as a branch of the air force. Why do you think it is called "Space Force"? Because it was originally the Air Force Space Command and is dated back to 1982.